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William Cureton — (1808 ndash;17 June 1864) was an English Orientalist. LifeHe was born in Westbury, Shropshire. After being educated at the Adams Grammar School of Newport, and at Christ Church, Oxford, he took orders in 1832, became chaplain of Christ Church,… … Wikipedia

Stanislas Julien — Stanislas Aignan Julien (April 13, 1797? February 14, 1873) was a French sinologist.Born at Orléans, he studied the classics at the Collège de France, and in 1821 was appointed assistant professor of Greek. In the same year he published an… … Wikipedia

Adolf Neubauer — (March 11, 1831–1907) was sublibrarian at the Bodleian Library and reader in Rabbinic Hebrew at Oxford University. Born at Bittse, Hungary, he received a thorough education in rabbinical literature, and his earliest contributions were made to the … Wikipedia

Christian Hebraist — A Christian Hebraist is a scholar of Hebrew who comes from a Christian family background/belief, or is a Jewish adherent of Christianity. The main area of study is that commonly known as the Old Testament to Christians (and Tanakh to Jews), but… … Wikipedia

Casaubon, Isaac — ▪ French scholar born Feb. 18, 1559, Geneva [Switzerland] died July 1, 1614, London, Eng. French classical scholar and theologian who was one of the leading scholars of the era. Casaubon was born to French Huguenot refugees. Three… … Universalium

Neubauer, Adolf — (1831 1907) British bibliog rapher, of Hungarian origin. He went to Oxford in 1868 to complete the catalogue of Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, which had been begun by Moritz Steinschneider; he later became a sublibrarian. His… … Dictionary of Jewish Biography

Glasgow — GLASGOW, a city, the seat of a university, and a sea port, having separate jurisdiction, locally in the Lower ward of the county of Lanark, and situated in longitude 4° 15 51 (W.), and latitude 55° 52 10 (N.), 23 miles (E. by S.) from Greenock … A Topographical dictionary of Scotland